Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: July 29
July 29, 2024 is the 211th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 155 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Monday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Ruby is your modern birthstone. Ruby is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: July 29
- 904 –Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessalonica, the Byzantine Empire’s second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.
- 1014 –Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.
- 1567 –James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
- 1588 –Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
- 1793 –John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
- 1851 –Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
- 1937 –Tōngzhōu Incident: in Tōngzhōu (China), the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
- 1987 –Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
- 1996 –The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad .
Who were born on July 29?
- 1860 –Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, Governor of Queensland, Governor of Bombay (d. 1940)
- 1905 –Clara Bow, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1925 –Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
- 1956 –Teddy Atlas, American boxing trainer and commentator
- 1959 –Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
- 1963 –Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator
- 1966 –Martina McBride, American country music singer
- 1970 –John Rennie, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1975 –Lanka de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1981 –Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 Driver
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